Fecal pellets of giant clams as a route for transporting Symbiodiniaceae to corals

• Masami Umeki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masami Umeki, Hiroshi Yamashita

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Hiroshi Yamashita ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masami Umeki, Hiroshi Yamashita

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Okinawa, Japan

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• Go Suzuki,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Okinawa, Japan

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• Taiki Sato,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Shizuka Ohara,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-6921

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• Kazuhiko Koike

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kazkoike@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5380-5839

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